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...South Korea, which has promised to send about 3,000 more troops to Iraq by the end of June. The nation will go to the polls this week to choose a new National Assembly, and while voters are currently more focused on the impeachment crisis surrounding President Roh Moo Hyun, Iraq might be the first big test for the postelection government, regardless of who leads it. Already, the public mood is turning against deploying more South Korean troops, especially after the brief kidnapping of seven missionaries last week. These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean Christians spreading...
Since being stripped of his presidency three weeks ago, Roh Moo Hyun has had a lot of downtime. He spent a weekend hiking with his family on a mountain overlooking the Blue House, the presidential mansion where he still resides. An aide says that on workdays Roh plows through a Korean translation of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's autobiography. He's been on TV, but didn't speak: since the impeachment, Roh hasn't addressed the nation...
...constitutional governance to be a delicate thing: one that is difficult to maintain, and easy to destroy. We are reminded of this once again as we observe the sad and tawdry constitutional crisis that has suddenly engulfed South Korea because of the March 12 impeachment of President Roh Moo Hyun...
...RELEASED. SEOK JAE HYUN, 34, the only foreign journalist known to be imprisoned in China; in Qingdao. A South Korean freelance photographer who has worked for the New York Times, Seok was arrested in January 2003 while covering a failed attempt by North Korean defectors to flee to South Korea and Japan in fishing boats. Because of international pressure, he was freed after serving 14 months of his two-year sentence for human trafficking...
...first ever impeachment of a South Korean President sparked a melee in the country's National Assembly last week. Trying unsuccessfully to prevent a vote on his ouster, SUPPORTERS OF ROH MOO HYUN tussled over access to the podium. Roh is accused of campaign violations. The Prime Minister has assumed Roh's duties while a court decides if he should be removed permanently...